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“First Sobell taught people how to use Linux . . . now he teaches you the power of Linux. A must-have book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level.”

–Jon “maddog” Hall, Executive Director, Linux International

New Chapters on Python and MySQL–Covers Perl, too!

Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples, and become a true Linux command-line guru!

NEW! Covers busybox, Midnight Commander, screen, and sshfs/curlftpf

Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools

295-page reference covers 98 utilities, including Mac OS X commands!

For use with all popular versions of Linux, including Ubuntu™, Fedora™, openSUSE™, Red Hat®, Debian, Mageia, Mint, Arch, CentOS, and Mac OS X, too!

The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution

Linux is today’s dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. This is the only guide with everything you need to achieve that level of Linux mastery. Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools sysadmins, developers, and power users need most, and has created an outstanding day-to-day reference.

This title is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic. Packed with hundreds of high-quality, realistic examples, it presents Linux from the ground up: the clearest explanations and most useful information about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions.

Use a Mac? You’ll find coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. There’s even an expert introduction to Python–today’s most valuable tool for automating complex, time-consuming administration tasks.

A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition, is the only guide to deliver

A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS)

A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users

New coverage of the busybox single binary collection of utilities, the screen terminal session manager/multiplexer, and the mc (Midnight Commander) textual file manager, plus a new chapter on using ssh for secure communication

In-depth coverage of the bash and tcsh shells, including a complete discussion of environment, inheritance, and process locality, plus coverage of basic and advanced shell programming

Practical explanations of 98 core utilities, from aspell to xargs, including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs, PLUS Mac OS X-specific utilities from ditto to SetFile

Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync

Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp

Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values, sequence expressions, the eval builtin, and implicit command-line continuation